Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level.
QUENTIN CRISPPeople say to me, “When did you come out?” But I was never in! When I was about six, I was swanning around the house in clothes that belonged to my mother and my grandmother which I’d found in an attic, saying, “I am a beautiful princess!”
More Quentin Crisp Quotes
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The war between the sexes is the only one in which both sides regularly sleep with the enemy.
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You must stop this interview now as I have come to end of my personality.
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Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
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The more people one has to love, the more one’s capacity to love stretches.
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My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
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Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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What my parents thought of this, I don’t know. But they bore it. And the real problem was not my sin, but my unemployability.
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I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
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The … problem that confronts homosexuals is that they set out to win the love of a “real” man. If they succeed, they fail. A man who “goes with” other men is not what they would call a real man. The conundrum is incapable of resolution, but that does not make homosexuals give it up.
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The trouble with European cities is that they are drenched in their history, almost all of which is terrible.
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Manners are love in a cool climate.
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Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely indifferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural extension of the body, or even of the soul.
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The English think that incompetence is the same thing as sincerity.
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